UVA Medical Center Hour
Bram Wispelwey, MD, MPH
Associate Physician, Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston MA
Tracy Downs MD, Scott Heysell MD, and Sula Mazimba MD, panelists
Gregory C. Townsend, MD, moderator
Racism is an ongoing public health crisis, and racial inequities in health, many of which are institutionally derived, are increasingly documented. Nationwide, little progress on these racial health inequities has been achieved to date, and a significant need persists for evidence-based interventions. From their experience analyzing institutional racism in heart failure admissions at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Drs. Bram Wispelwey and Michelle Morse designed Healing ARC – acknowledgment, redress, and closure – as a model to practically redress racial inequities in healthcare delivery with the involvement of impacted community members. Dr. Wispelwey will discuss the Brigham team’s journey from research to action, the backlash this provoked, and the promise of race-conscious and reparative approaches to address inequities in medicine.
Co-sponsored by the Diversity and Community Engagement Offices of UVA School of Medicine and UVA Health